This was Emma’s last project. She gave it her everything, working out of hospitals in very difficult circumstances. In the end she ran out of time and life. I then spent the next 18 months doing my best to complete the project as Emma had envisaged it. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#OpenAccess - Ritual, emotion, and change in world politics - https://cup.org/4bpYz8z "we introduce and build on existing scholarship that presents emotions as central to how rituals create a sense of collective unity" - Emma Hutchison & @bleiker.bsky.social#OpenAccess #FirstView

@br24.de @brkommunikation.bsky.social warum normalisiert ihr die AfD und gebt denen eine Platform? Und das, nachdem eine Gutachten festgestellt hat, dass ein Verbotsverfahren erfolgreich wäre. Schämt euch!

As the crisis in UK higher education and research deepens, the British Academy’s President, Susan J Smith (@sjs1869.bsky.social) has urged an immediate and comprehensive review to secure the sector's long-term sustainability. See the full statement: https://bit.ly/4v8jdks

Zum 1.2.2027 suchen wir wissenschaftl. Mitarbeiter/Mitarbeiterinnen (w/m/d) mit herausragender Promotion, sehr guten Japanischkenntnissen & Forschungserfahrung in Japan für das Forschungsprogramm „Kulturen der Transformation – Japan im Vergleich“ Details karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/1...

For anyone interested in contemporary revolutions, check out this open access forum in @millennjournal.bsky.social, with contributions by @jasminekgani.bsky.social, Maria Tanyag, Toby Dodge, Ben Abrams. And me. Well worth a read - available here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We’ve been ranked 1st in the UK and 6th in the world for Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions in the Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings 2026. The rankings measure universities based on progress towards the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals: https://ow.ly/o4Ip50ZgfPX

Check out E-International Relations #BISA2026 day 1-3 interviews! 🎙️ With Simon Rushton, David J. Wilcox, Gemma Bird, Bruno Sowden-Carvalho, Patricia Nabuco Martuscelli, @julietdryden.bsky.social and more! 🌟 Listen to all 3 episodes here today! 👉 https://ow.ly/Em9R50ZfVfr

Excited to share @ugaudino.bsky.social and my article out now in @risjnl.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Grateful for the invitation to speak at the exile knowledge transfer conference at the University of Verona. Gives me a chance to revisit some of my earlier work on emigre scholars.

We are recruiting a fully-funded PhD student in political science at the Swedish Defence University with a focus on Japanese security policy. Please spread to promising candidates. web103.reachmee.com/ext/I012/256...

Liminalities are back back back again 👀 Less than a week left to submit your abstracts for our Special Issue Symposium! millenniumjournal.org/call-for-abs...

📣 Did you miss our BISA 2026 prize winners announcement! 📣 Huge congratulations from everybody at BISA 🧡 Read below to find out more about each winner, see some honourable mentions, and what the judges said about each winner! 🌟 👉 https://ow.ly/I4zf50Z7JKq

🏆Thank you @mybisa.bsky.social British International Studies Association for awarding Emilia SH Heo and me the Distinguished Excellence in Teaching International Studies Prize this year. I am so deeply honoured to receive this prize. @sussexfss.bsky.social

We are thrilled to announce that this year our Distinguished Excellence in Teaching International Studies Prize was awarded to Felix Roesch and Emilia SH Heo 🎉

🚨 Our BISA 2026 prize winners have just been announced! 🚨 Huge congratulations to everyone who won and received honourable mentions! 🧡 Read below to find out more about each winner, see some honourable mentions, and what the judges said about each winner! 🌟 👉 https://ow.ly/I4zf50Z7JKq

𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 – 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝗮 𝘄𝗿𝗮𝗽 As Higher Education Partner, our Festival of Ideas (led by Media, Arts & Humanities) brought Sussex research to life through creative conversations on future food production, AI and the arts, personal storytelling and queer archives. Photo 2: Chenying Cannell

We draw on a of great work in IR, including IPS, IPE and beyond... and here is the link to @tobiasliebetrau.bsky.social and my article which is part of the 20th anniversary special issue of International Political Sociology: doi.org/10.1093/ips/...

🚨 New Publication 🚨 My latest paper "Theorising Practices, #Time, and #Emotions. Time for #Sociability at the Potsdam Conference?" has been published in the @pvs-journal.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1... @sussexfss.bsky.social

#CfP Call for Proposals von der @pvs-journal.bsky.social für eine Sonderausgabe, vorzugsweise in englischer Sprache. Einsendeschluss ist der 31. Mai 2026 per Mail an [email protected]. English version below👇

Soapbox Science returns to Brighton seafront! 🧪🌊 Celebrating the work of women and non-binary scientists, 12 researchers will share their latest discoveries with beachgoers - head to the seafront from 11am on Saturday 30 May. Find out more: https://ow.ly/4GRO50Z4IRR

Very excited to see my article "When Resistance Turns Right: Counter-Conduct and The Rise of Authoritarian Populism" out in EJST! It interrogates the conceptual space that allows authoritarian populists to successfully mobilise resistance narratives. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨🚨 Italo Brandimarte and I have a new article out in International Political Sociology! It is part of the IPS@20 Anniversary Special Issue and is open access at: academic.oup.com/ips/article/.... We call for de-centering the human in temporal world political analysis via 'Deep Global Futures'. ⬇️⬇️

The Big Picture as an Approach to the Study of International Relations by Rita Floyd and Laust Schouenborg A statement on the value of adopting a macro perspective on international relations based on the work of Barry Buzan. 📚 https://cup.org/41voG8E

Postgraduate Network and first-timers meet up at #BISA2026 🎉 A great way to meet fellow first-timers, postgraduates and ECRs with the PGN's friendly and welcoming committee members 🌟 Sponsored by the PGN on Tuesday 2 June at The Mesmerist 👉 https://conference.bisa.ac.uk/featured-events

🚨 New Publication 🚨 My latest paper "Theorising Practices, #Time, and #Emotions. Time for #Sociability at the Potsdam Conference?" has been published in the @pvs-journal.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1... @sussexfss.bsky.social

Join us this Tuesday (19th May) for the Sussex International Theory Prize Lecture. Details below 👇

📢 Join us for the Sussex International Theory Prize Lecture 2025. Patrick Quinton-Brown (Singapore Management University) will speak about his book "Intervention before Interventionism". The lecture will take place on 19th May 2026 and it will be hybrid. Further details below 👇

Timely that my chapter on Planetary Socialism 'A Left for the Earth' coincides with the Green surge in the UK (and the latest nail in the coffin for what used to be the social democratic Old Left but now is a strange right of centre nationalist-neoliberal perversion of it) doi.org/10.4324/9781...

📢 Join us for the Sussex International Theory Prize Lecture 2025. Patrick Quinton-Brown (Singapore Management University) will speak about his book "Intervention before Interventionism". The lecture will take place on 19th May 2026 and it will be hybrid. Further details below 👇

Freue mich sehr, dass meine Einführung in die Politische Theorie erschienen ist. Ab sofort erhältlich!

Looks like an interesting addition to aesthetic IR 👇 Movement, Space, and Torture: Exploring Contemporary Dance and Experimental Filmmaking as a Method for International Relations academic.oup.com/ips/article-...

Great to see this piece with Brent Steele, on Indigenous v Western approaches to fire in USA and Australia, published in @gepjournal.bsky.social. We make the case different approaches to fire point to broader & significant differences in relations to nature and place. direct.mit.edu/glep/article...

Last year, Professor Roland Bleiker delivered the keynote address at the BISA conference in Belfast. He spoke with our editor Seb Kaempf on the RIS podcast about "seeing and sensing world politics" 🎧 👉 buff.ly/0a9Xs9z

🧳 This week, our @sussexfss.bsky.social International Relations postgraduate students went to sunny Brussels to visit several institutions of the European Union, amongst others the European External Action Service (EEAS), the European Commission, and the European Parliament.

Excited to announce a New Book Launch! “Humanitarianism in the Home: Hosting-at-home and the Politics of Hospitality” by Gabrielle Daoust, and @syndyv.bsky.social Next Tuesday, 2-3.30pm GSRC #humanitarianism #CGI

La rue est une musée pour tous! (Herge)

One week to go (deadline: 4th May) if you want to submit your fabulous books to be considered for the Sussex International Theory Prize 👇

We had a great book launch at CAIT with Afshin Matin-Asgari about his book "Axis of Empire". In case you missed it, the event was recorded and will be made available soon on our Youtube Channel. Find more information about his book here 👇 www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Happening tomorrow 👇

Absolutely thrilled about the publication of the new edition of GLOBALE MONARCHIE by the German Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung). Very affordable! The English translation of the book is in progress...: www.bpb.de/shop/buecher... @lsehy.bsky.social @bpb.de

#OpenAccess - Realism, ideology, and exile - https://cup.org/3OnrUbp "This article reconceptualizes the realist relationship with ideology in terms of a recurring experience of ideological exile" - @lefteleven.bsky.social#OpenAccess #FirstView

Now online and open access! An autobiographical essay by John Dunn (Cambridge) entitled "The History of Political Thought as Window on the World" @global-ih.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thanks to everyone who has shared photos of our 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲. 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄. campaign across Brighton and beyond. It's helping more people discover what makes Sussex an exciting place to be — celebrating ideas, research, collaboration and the difference we make. Find out more: https://ow.ly/ouqR50YvQ87

Join us on 22nd April, to launch the timely Axis of Empire: A History of Iran–US Relations by Afshin Matin-Asgari (California State University, Los Angeles). The book launch is hybrid and will take place at 5pm. For anyone on campus, please come to Fulton 102. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/axis-of-em...

Want to know the challenges and rewards of a life in academia? Are you a postgrad or early career scholar? 🌟 Come and join our PG, ECR development day on 2 June w/ Juanita Elias, Nick Caddick, The Conversation UK, @julietdryden.bsky.social & more! 🎉 Sign up today 👉 https://ow.ly/pvxv50Yglmp

Very glad to see this article out in the world. In it, I argue for a critical reading of realism's political history, in terms of exile and how realists historically experienced it. /1

Looks like an interesting contribution to the literature on classical realism @lefteleven.bsky.social 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New paper! academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic... What does “taking back control of borders” feel like when you are the one being bordered?

Germany reintroduced a soft form of military service in 2026. While service remains voluntary, all male 18‑year‑olds must undergo military medical tests, including a testicle check. But what is this sovereign touch about? Spoiler: it offers little medical value but plenty of sociological insight.